With the current state of the world amidst a pandemic, corporations have had to readjust the way they conduct their business. Re-thinking their products and services, upgrading customer experiences, exploring new markets, and reinventing business models are just some of the ways organizations have had to adapt.
In the SAP world especially, this need to adapt has brought up challenges on the IT side of things, specifically with complexity. SAP ERP customers are no stranger to having tons of applications, even if SAP might be at the core. There often exists various integrations, customizations, processes, and different technologies. So how can corporations go about adapting this data through transformation, but apply it at scale across a whole organization while staying within the budget and lowering TCO?
To ease the level of complexity that comes with modernizing SAP ERP systems, a sustainable solution is incremental migration to EdgeReady Cloud, for example. In a valuable joint webinar, Pillir and CenturyLink discuss why to consider modernizing an SAP environment, how to begin a modernization journey and how incremental modernization to the cloud helps to support digital transformation. Watch the webinar video below to learn how modernizing SAP and incrementally migrating to the cloud is possible and how Pillir’s solutions such as NANCI and EdgeReady Cloud support the ability to migrate to the cloud.
So why should any corporation consider modernizing an SAP environment? There’s a few benefits that come along with modernization for SAP:
So, what are the steps to actually begin modernization and incremental migration to the cloud?
Digital transformation in an SAP environment can seem daunting, but breaking it up into different phases will allow you to see the big picture and successfully accomplish modernization and migration to the cloud. That’s exactly what incremental SAP modernization refers to--taking bits and pieces of an SAP ERP system and modernizing each part gradually.
In the first phase, it’s important to sync up with the key members of your team who will be involved in the project to digitally transform your SAP environment. Communication is key in order to have a successful modernization and migration solution. Once team members congregate, it’s important to access the current SAP ERP system you have and plan for future steps in the modernization journey. With a powerful assessment tool such as NANCI, ABAP customizations are revealed in minutes, along with TCO and rate of change calculations.
EdgeReady Cloud is a low-code rapid application development platform. Powered by and hosted on AWS, it provides pre-built, native adapters to many business systems and databases, as well as offline capabilities that enable data accuracy in any connectivity landscape. With EdgeReady Cloud, users can more efficiently migrate, build, and extend applications, enabling the process of migrating to the Cloud more swift and cost-effective.
In the third phase, users will want to start taking bits and pieces of an SAP ERP system and transforming them. At Pillir, this means targeting a complex, mission critical core system with small projects that not only have a quick business impact but also an immediate and measurable ROI. This is an alternative approach to moving everything at once, and is valuable because it emphasizes the challenges and opportunities based on your use case.
In the last and final phase, corporations will be able to take their modernized system and upgrade to S/4HANA.
As previously mentioned, Pillir’s solutions can support your corporation in its SAP modernization journey.
EdgeReady Cloud provides a low code, rapid application development tool that allows for legacy applications to be modernized and migrated with little-to-no programming, as well as accessible and fully functional within an online or offline environment. EdgeReady Cloud uses cloud scalability, resiliency, and security to further support the modernization of legacy applications.
Through the power of EdgeReady Cloud, Pillir's ABAP Analysis Dashboard provides the #1 ABAP cost analysis application for SAP ERP customers. Through it, users can easily identify technical debt, which is crucial in the process of modernizing.
Discover more about how EdgeReady Cloud and the ABAP analysis dashboard support SAP modernization and incremental migration to the cloud today - contact our team to learn more.